The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-05-18

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so big as to work altogether on the
cheap. Five cents a copy is the
usual fee, with slight reduction
for large number, or fifty cents q
month to regular subscribers.
Naturally, men who are in the habit
of getting fee for advice, can APP
preciate the extreme goodness Of |
heart which tenders them "advice |
gratis"
1t is very kind of people to take
any thought of our linen whatever,
and the implied wish that it should
be washed and cleansedis commend
able in the highest degree; for
clean linen is very essential TO
health and comfort, especially in a
climate that is usually moderately
warm. Although, by the way, our ex-
perience of the world is that people
are generally more concerned about
the condition of their outer fittings,
which are usually of some other
material, than of their inner appa-
rel, denominated linen. Thus, man
with stylish pair of pantaloons and
superb coat often has, concealed
underneath, dilapidated linen not
scrupulously clean. He would not
appear on the streets in thread
bare coat, though without speck
of dirt, for the world, but he may
have o shirt full of holes and sea-
soned with weeks accumulation
of dirt, without feeling particle of
concern.
We presume the primary cause Of
this individual peculiarly of many
people may be found in the eccen-
tricities Of mankind in general. 1t
is not clean linen, nor rcspectability
of character, nor uprightness of life,
nor intellect which is respectfully
and reverentially saluted, but a fine
suit of glossy clothes, polished
boots, large gold chain, and a
bell-topper hat. These make the
man, whether they are paid for or
not, got honestly or stolen, and the
hcsh-and-bones figure which is de-
corated with them will be duly
bowed to and politely saluted while
the man of honor who is incapable
of a mean act, and wears patched
coat and billy-cock hat, booth of
which he has paid for, and can be
induced to put on nothing better
until he feels able to afford it, will
only be seen to be avoided ant
given a wide berth by the swells
lest contact should contaminate
J Such is the way of the world, from
which il is evident the world is vast
ly more matter than mind, and that
: neither clean linen nor the truly
noble attributes OF heart and hea(
are of any wcighty consequence il
the public estimation.
After the foregoing detour, VIZ
come back to the gratuitous advice
the receipt of which was acknowl
edged at the start, and proceed Il
reply as briefly rs possible. Gu
kind advisers apparently recognis
the fact that there is dirty linen whic
B, needs washing. On this point ther
is perfect agreement between then
5 and ourselves. We have long bee
conscious of the fact that this smaI
=. nation has big pile of social
i moral, political, and official dirt
linen, piled away in various places
The bulk has been steadily increa-
ing, until it has become so large tina
every man not born blind canno
i help seeing it. The persons respon
: sible for the soiling, seem to car
= nothing about the cleansing. /
II fact, they appear to have lost a
u sense of shame. 1t has been OH
u custom to inform them gently an
. gingerly Of its existence, with til
" hope of inducing them to attend {
5 the washing and to adopt NOR
cleanly habits, and only, as rule
when they deliberately and insolentl
u ignore their duty and responsibility
Il do we tell them in plain Englis
that they are dirty set of scala
= wags-not, we confess, because W
deem the guilty parties entitled t
consideration, but because we kno
that our feeble words, allhoug
] coming from an obscure source an
rusty old pen, are scattered to th
y five continents of the globe by ever
l. outgoing mail, and we are ashame
# for the world to know that this OF
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